Karla Kelsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 9194035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karla Kelsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karla |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelsey |
| SIGNATURE | KELSEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Susquehanna University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fugitive truth and fragmentary consciousness
This essay examines how Mina Loy’s The Child and the Parent employs allegorical structure as a philosophical method for critiquing gender and class formations within patriarchal culture. Reading Loy’s autobiographical prose alongside Walter Benjamin’s theory of allegory, I argue that her innovative application of allegory to embodied experience generates fugitive truth: momentary illuminations of reality otherwise obscured by dominant discourse. …
A Practice in Beveled Light for Brian Teare
Brian Teare meditates on the body in pain, on pain as a way to “mark” or “shape” the I. “I am made an object by pain” he writes, but then “who is the subject of pain”? Engaging Elaine Scarry, Maurice Blanchot, and the paintings of Agnes Martin, Teare asks how the “I” who feels pain can communicate such experience to others, and can thereby become once again a subject. Through the metaphors that art provides, Teare finds embodiment's approximate e…
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A Practice in Beveled Light for Brian Teare
Brian Teare meditates on the body in pain, on pain as a way to “mark” or “shape” the I. “I am made an object by pain” he writes, but then “who is the subject of pain”? Engaging Elaine Scarry, Maurice Blanchot, and the paintings of Agnes Martin, Teare asks how the “I” who feels pain can communicate such experience to others, and can thereby become once again a subject. Through the metaphors that art provides, Teare finds embodiment's approximate e…
Fugitive truth and fragmentary consciousness
This essay examines how Mina Loy’s The Child and the Parent employs allegorical structure as a philosophical method for critiquing gender and class formations within patriarchal culture. Reading Loy’s autobiographical prose alongside Walter Benjamin’s theory of allegory, I argue that her innovative application of allegory to embodied experience generates fugitive truth: momentary illuminations of reality otherwise obscured by dominant discourse. …
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